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1 " When we are shown scenes of starving children in Africa, with a call for us to do something to help them, the underlying ideological message is something like: " Don't think, don't politicize, forget about the true causes of their poverty, just act, contribute money, so that you will not have to think! "
2 " Sympathy’s easy. You have sympathy for starving children swatting at flies on the late-night commercials. Sympathy is easy because it comes from a position of power. Empathy is getting down on your knees and looking someone else in the eye and realizing you could be them, and that all that separates you is luck. "
― Dennis Lehane
3 " So the swallow flew over the great city, and saw the rich making merry in their beautiful houses, while the beggars were sitting at the gates. He flew into dark lanes, and saw the white faces of starving children looking out listlessly at the black streets... "
― Oscar Wilde , The Happy Prince and Other Tales
